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- Title
SHOULD I COLLABORATE?
- Authors
Wolseley, Roland E.
- Abstract
The article discusses the author's views on the issue of collaboration in writing a book. Any sort of writing is an exercise in and an expression of the ego. Collaboration, calls for a degree of diminution of the ego, involving as it does cooperation and compromise with another ego. There are various advantages of collaboration, like collaboration makes it possible to cover a wider range or to provide more in depth material than one author might be able to offer, collaboration produces a technically better book than a solo author might write. But there are various disadvantages also including it potentially can provoke problems that have been known to ruin good book ideas and plans, collaboration means a loss to the originating author of a percentage of the book's earnings.
- Subjects
AUTHORSHIP collaboration; EGO (Psychology); AUTHORS; BOOKS; AUTHORSHIP; MOTIVATION (Psychology)
- Publication
Journalism Educator, 1980, Vol 35, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0022-5517
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/107769588003500108